Four Color
#844 - Gunsmoke
(August 1957)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Issue Notes
Trail's End
Gunsmoke / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon (photo of James Arness)
- Reprints
-
in Rauchende Colts (BSV - Williams, 1969 series) #10 -
in Aventura (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #188 (15 de agosto de 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover is collage of photo and drawings.
[no title indexed]
Gunsmoke / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A marshal has to carry a gun...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon (photo of James Arness)
- Synopsis
- Introduction to series.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two photos and brief typeset text.
Trail's End
Gunsmoke / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon; Kitty; Chester
- Synopsis
- Matt and Kitty are on a train returning to Dodge City after a day of visiting friends when the train is attacked by robbers. After the train gets back to Dodge, Matt and Chester go after the robbers.
Indexer Notes
Originally pencils and inks credited to Jim MacDonald for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
"The Gunsmoke artist is Jim McLaughlin (long faces, narrow jaw, etc.). He worked at Ace before they folded..." from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Art correction by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Check Your Guns
Gunsmoke / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty
- Synopsis
- Matt Dillon has trouble with the storekeepers when he tries to impose an order requiring guns to be checked.
Indexer Notes
Originally pencils and inks credited to Jim MacDonald for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
"The Gunsmoke artist is Jim McLaughlin (long faces, narrow jaw, etc.). He worked at Ace before they folded..." from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Art correction by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Western Pistols
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Types of pistols used in the Old West.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Originally pencils and inks credited to Jim MacDonald for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Western Theater
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Facts about theaters in the Old West.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 6.
Originally pencils and inks credited to Jim MacDonald for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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0.
Trail's End
Gunsmoke -
1.
["A marshal has to carry a gun..."]
Gunsmoke -
2.
Trail's End
Gunsmoke -
3.
Check Your Guns
Gunsmoke -
4.
Western Pistols
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5.
Western Theater
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6.
Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum
- Katie
- Steinar Ådland
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Ken Austin
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
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